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Matthew Segal
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Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: Admitting rap music or videos in criminal trials is highly prejudicial, especially bc "by no means is rap the exclusive genre for glorification of criminal activity." Some examples from the Court: search.txcourts.gov/Case.aspx?cn...

Holding song lyrics to their literal meaning would lead to the following conclusions: Freddie Mercury “killed a man,” Bob Marley “shot the sheriff,” Macy Gray “committed murder and . . . got away,” the band formerly known as The Dixie Chicks killed Earl, and classically, Johnny Cash “shot a man just to watch him die.”
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SEgojira65.bsky.social

Next you're going to tell me that Joe didn't shoot his woman down.

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SFsynicism.bsky.social

That's... surprisingly reasonable for Texas.

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ASahstrongmorse.bsky.social

Kinda shocking to omit Swift’s “No Body, No Crime”…

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Ttjrbare.bsky.social

Ok but the court here is unfairly eliding the fact that Bob Marley did *not* shoot the deputy

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leghk.bsky.social

A shocking judicial recognition that fiction exists in the arts, but I'm surprised they didn't call them "perjurious."

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WPwrosecrans.bsky.social

As somebody who doesn't know anything or care about rap, if I was on a jury and a prosecutor put on a music video I would 100% think it was like when a substitute teacher put on a movie in school because they have no curriculum.

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mayhewmayhem.bsky.social

This is Reno erasure

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SDsdowney.bsky.social

"classically" - 😂 Although, yes, Odysseus absolutely would have.

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Ddarklydreaming.bsky.social

Dear gods I hummed a few bars from every single one of those songs in order

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Matthew Segal
@segalmr.bsky.social
Civil Rights Lawyer | Personal Views | Not Legal Advice | law.yale.edu/matthew-r-segal
1.2k followers293 following204 posts